CS30.4
Investigate influences on the development of conscience and its effect on individuals and society.

[DHP, CH, SSM]

Indicators for this outcome
(a)

Describe influences on the sensitization and desensitization of conscience (e.g., family, friends, grace, formal and informal education, media, cultural traditions).

(b)

Reflect upon the extent to which one's conscience and moral beliefs influence one's actions (e.g., resistance to peer pressure; moral relativism; environmental, economic and social sustainability; cohabitation; digital behaviours such as sexting and cyberbullying).

(c)

Assess the difference between doing good and avoiding evil including the role of silent majorities and unquestioned obedience (e.g., Nazism, KKK, slavery, ISIS, Edmund Burke's statement: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing").

(d)

Examine and represent (e.g., through presentations or arts expressions) ideas about conscience and morality such as:

  • I am part of a community so my actions affect others
  • faith informed by reason; reason informed by faith
  • a good intention can never justify an evil act.
(e)

Examine the role of conscience in moral judgment through the three sources of Catholic morality (i.e., the moral object, the intention and the circumstances).

(f)

Discuss personal implications and responsibilities stemming from the Church teaching about the concept of primacy of conscience.

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